Fortunately, the rise of crowdsourcing has created a much bigger market to the point where now there are tons of mTurk alternatives out there.

So, I dug around and found ten of the most popular and user-friendly sites similar to mTurk that you can use to either earn extra money as a “Worker” or to outsource some of your work as a “Requester.”

Samasource is actually an innovative social business which connects women and youth who are impoverished, allowing them to find work through the internet.

Samasource has in-country partners to help them identify, as well as recruit poor women and youth who are making less than $3 a day on average. These partners are responsible for helping these underprivileged youth and women become Samasource workers, giving them the chance to make a decent living wage.

Workers are given two to four weeks of computer-based training to help them prepare for micro work projects, which aids them to become successful in the workplace.

These Samasource employees are given micro work that come from clients. This enables them to make a living wage as well as gain the needed job skills required to increase their lifetime earnings.

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This crowdsourcing website employs more than 60,000 workers around the globe.

There aren’t a lot of gigs available here compared to other sites mentioned in this post.

Nonetheless, it’s worth a few minutes it takes to sign up. Often, these small tasks sites are a stepping stone for freelancers and employers who use these sites to find long term projects and workers. You never know where and when you’ll find your next big client that can get you long term work with much bigger pay.

Vijay, what part of it do you need help with. The registration is free and it is fairly easy. You just visit mturk.com and sign up as a worker. From there,. you will simply have to browse the available hits and work on the ones you are interested in.

I’m totally new to crowdsourcing, so I appreciate blogs like this. I’ve been trying to do surveys for a while but I am (as I started to call it) “geographically challenged”.
I kind of hope that I have more success with these so called “microtasks”.
Anyway, thanks for the info. Just yesterday I started at mturk, and I’m awaiting to get approved, wich takes 48 hours. In the meanwhile I started registering, and I started to try one of these sites that are listed here.

Hi there, there is another great alternative to MTurk called Findyr (www.findyr.com). Requesters can task people all over the world with finding information and custom content that can’t be easily found online.

Market researchers and academics both use it, and it provides people who answer requests with extra cash as well as great experience in many cases.

But meanwhile I even tried to register for mTurk and they rejected it (without stating any reason). I am basically from India, however I stay in Europe due my profession. Is the place of residence the criteria for mTurk reviewing process ?. Any idea why they rejected my application.

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